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Re: Install report: Woody on a SGI Indy R5000



On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 02:46:51PM +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> [snip]
> > >     - Manual mentions /tmp as a recommended mount point but not /boot,
> > >       Installer mentions /boot but not /tmp. Both the Manual and the
> > >       installer should be expanded WRT.
> > 
> > I guess when using arcboot we will have a serious problem having
> > /boot as a different fs then / because of the symlinks. /vmlinux points
> > to a different fs.
> 
> Never heard of arcboot. Is this something similiar to SGI's sash?

Much simpler. Its getting installed into the volume header. Its able
to boot an ELF kernel from a common ext2/ext3 partition. Guido worked
on it very hard 2 weeks ago and there is a debian package now. We
are looking forward to change the kernel-images and kernel-package to
provide elf images and use arcboot for booting which will also bring
down the needed volume header size.

> > This i guess is a different baud rate. Try to delete /etc/ioctl.save
> > and reboot. The userspace switches to a different baud rate on different
> > occasions. One of the problems might be that the inittab contains a
> > fixed baut rate and there is no way to determin which baud rate the user
> > gave the kernel on startup. This whole issue is really difficult to
> > solve.
> 
> ths@iris14:~$ dmesg |grep baud
> Console: ttyS0 (Zilog8530), 38400 baud
> 
> Should work quite well. :-)

It works yes - The problem is that there are 3 party involved in the
serial console which makes it hard to provide a consistent look and feel
to the user. First there is the kernel console for all kernel messages
until "mounting root" and the later coming kernel oopes and stuff. Then
there is the userspace /dev/console stuff where all bootup message come
through. The baud rate of the former is set by the kernel command line.
I am unshure about /dev/console which might come from /etc/ioctl.save
via "init". Then there is the login getty on /dev/console which has
a baud rate on its command line as an argument.

Flo
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